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Show I Measure Draws Republicans' Fire GIVING LONG AWAITED SENATE FARM BILL ITS FINAL CHECKUP "Cotton Ed" Smith (D., S. C.) studies measure before leaving hit office for the rapitol London Sees Pact With Berlin As Halifax Reports to King LONDON. Nov. 23 (AP) Reliable diplomatic sources disclosed dis-closed tonight Chancellor Adolf Hitler, in his recent conversation with Viscount Halifax, asked Great Britain to recognise that Germany had "special interests'- in central Europe. LONDON, Nov. 23 (AP) Viscount Halifax reported .today to King George at Buckingham palace while the London press speculated specu-lated vaguely about the result of his talks with Chancellor Hitler of ; 1 1 Informed sources in Iondon aaid the reported French offer of colonial colo-nial raw materials in return for German manufactured products had nothing to do with the Halifax-Hitler Halifax-Hitler talks. Ever since the start of France's people's front government, they said. France has pressed fori trade agreements with Germany. A short statement was expected in the house of commons tomorrow as a result of the tallta, but it was not expected to be more than an atmospheric at-mospheric expression of good will. Germany. He already had reported to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden on his visit to Hitler's Berchtesgaden home last week. On one hand It was freely Intimated Inti-mated that the talks were successful success-ful for Germany. These quarters believed the Halifax journey would result in Britain's abandonment of the policy of seeking general European Euro-pean settlement. The greater body of opinion, however, how-ever, was that the talks might lead to some trade deal between the two countries. These persons insisted insist-ed Halifax was instructed to keep Germany guessing about Britain's policy in central Europe. Hitler's declaration of yesterday that "in aix years the countries will realise the necessity of taking practical prac-tical steps' on the colonial question ques-tion caused London to wonder whether Halifax had agreed to some sort of an Anglo-German deal. (Hitler, speaking at a nasi rally yesterday, the same day that Halifax Hali-fax left for home, a poke of "our lost property" prewar colonies and said "the world will have to return H.M) |